The revisions focused on storm-water runoff and on allowing exceptions to and extensions of the ordinance.

Planner Chairman Owen McCall said the changes were "not very extensive."

With the review of the ordinance's administrative, legal, engineering and planning aspects, Borough Council next will hold a public hearing on the revised ordinance before adopting it. The hearing may be tied in with a public hearing for the revised zoning ordinance, officials said.

The group agreed that engineers should be left to determine if the rate of storm-water runoff would increase with any changes in development. Noting that the amount of runoff increases whenever development is increased, the planners said the ordinance should state that developers have the burden of managing any increase in the rate of runoff.

Referring to a section on exceptions to the ordinance, Haber said he was afraid that any provision for exceptions "opens the door" for legal questions. In striking the clause on exceptions, they suggested that minor exceptions may be made in some circumstances, as long as the borough engineer has no objections.

Also, the group decided that developers who received preliminary approval for plans but who did not complete the development within two years would be required to return for plan approval. Planners accepted Haber's suggestion that extensions might be granted if requests were made in writing.

McCall said the group worked with a draft ordinance from the JPC. He said the ordinance should be reviewed every few years, and was last updated in 1979.